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Gerbera Daisy Extravaganza! - Living in Bloom with J Schwanke
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Life in Bloom's J Schwanke and Jennifer Moss make a dazzling centerpiece comprised of gerberas!
Life in Bloom's J Schwanke and Jennifer Moss make a dazzling centerpiece comprised of gerbera daisies!
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Gerbera Daisy Extravaganza! - Living in Bloom with J Schwanke
Clip: Season 1 | 4m 23sVideo has Closed Captions
Life in Bloom's J Schwanke and Jennifer Moss make a dazzling centerpiece comprised of gerbera daisies!
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(upbeat bright music) Okay J, is it Gerbera or?
- Gerbera.
- Gerbera.
- Both are correct.
What's not correct is Gerber.
- Gerber.
- It's not a Gerber daisy.
- Right.
- Right?
It is G-E-R-B-E-R-A.
- Right.
- So Gerbera or Gerbera.
- Gerbera.
- In England they call it a Gerbera.
- Gerbera.
- So they have a soft G. - We're not gonna confuse it.
We're gonna stick with it.
- And the Gerberas come from Jersey, in England, so it's Gerberas from Jersey.
So that's, yeah, it's fun.
- And I'll let you say that.
- Exactly, exactly.
- What are we doing?
- What we're gonna do today is I thought it would be fun for us because you love these flowers.
They're happy flowers.
- Absolutely.
- They come in such a wide variety of colors.
So what I did was I took waterproof scotch tape, and I just ran a grid over the top of this so that it will hold our flowers in place.
So when we stick it in there.
- [Jennifer] Places perfectly in the water.
- Right, and they're holding 'em in the water, they're sitting 'em up high.
Now, one more secret.
Because our Gerberas have these crazy fuzzy stems, when they go down into water, they create bacteria very quickly because of that fuzziness.
So we use what we call as a gerbera pill.
Okay, and it's a little pill like that.
It's for a liter of water.
There's two liters in here, so I'm gonna put two of those in.
They last for three days.
It's like a little chlorine tablet like you'd have in your swimming pool.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- And that helps them.
- It helps keep the water, and it's gonna make these straight, and stiff, and strong.
- Okay, and very vibrant looking, and really pretty centerpiece.
- Exactly, and so I think we should make it an ombre effect.
So we've got orange, we'll go to the gold in the middle, and then we'll have the yellow on the end.
- [Jennifer] Do you want me to start over here?
Where do you want?
- Sure, sure.
Let's meet in the middle.
- We'll meet in the middle.
- Let's meet in the middle - With the gerberas.
- Right, right, right.
Exactly.
I love it.
You know, I think that it makes people so happy, and one of my favorite things to do is to make flowers with friends.
- Yes.
- Because it's kind of like cooking with friends, you know, is that, you know, it's just a time for you to do things together and play.
You get to talk, you get to share, you know, stories, and I think that that's the best part.
- It is the best part.
- It's just the best part.
- And it's kind of a, you know, bringing everybody together kind of thing.
You can almost have like a flower party kind of thing.
- Of course you could, right?
- That would be fun.
- It's wonderful.
- Like part of the dinner thing.
People could create.
Didn't you say, don't people bring flowers somewhere, and then that's like a gift or something somewhere?
- In Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, people always bring flowers when they come for dinner.
Okay, and so then in the US some people, Martha Stewart loves to tell everybody don't do that because the hostess has to make the flower arrangement then and she's busy with everything else, but I'm of the opinion that we help her.
- Exactly.
- And we help make the bouquet together.
So it's a wonderful opportunity for us to do that.
- And something that kind of kicks off your dinner party.
- Sure, sure, sure.
So it's a fun way to do it.
Oh, see, you got a couple more.
- Oh, I got one more.
- Yeah.
Let's go with all with them.
- Fill it in there.
- [J] Let's go with all of them.
There you go.
I think one more down here on your end.
Oh, right there.
- [Jennifer] Absolutely.
Oh, that's beautiful.
Oh my gosh.
- And there's one more still sitting there.
We're gonna go right there.
- We're gonna just put it in there.
- We're gonna go right here with it.
- [Jennifer] Beautiful.
Look at that.
- [J] See, look at how that color transcends across.
- That is absolutely beautiful.
- We can still visit over the top of it.
I think it's a wonderful way.
- [Jennifer] That is gorgeous.
I mean, what a beautiful centerpiece.
- [J] And it was fun, we made it together.
- I know.
Exactly.
See, that's what we're talking about.
- Exactly.
- The whole flower thing.
- It all goes together.
- Flower power?
Is that what they call it?
- Flower power.
Sure, exactly.
Thanks.
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